Rob Anderson is Professor in the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University. He has written or edited six books including The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community with Kenneth N. Cissna and Ronald C. Arnett. Kenneth N. Cissna is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. He has also edited Applied Communication in the 21st Century, winner of the Speech Communication Association's 1995 "Outstanding Book in Applied Communication" award.

"This is a sensitive, penetrating, and illuminating interpretation of a very significant dialogue. Throughout the commentary the authors provide reasonable interpretations grounded on previous transcript errors or on external historical evidence they have uncovered. These new interpretations add significantly to our understanding of the meanings possibly intended by the participants and the meanings possibly constructed by the audience. The style is clear, precise, stimulating, and provocative."— Richard L. Johannesen, Northern Illinois University"I like the fact that it provides a complete and unedited historical record of a uniquely significant public conversation between two primary contributors to dialogic theory. The book provides a rare, accurate picture of the only meeting between these two seminal thinkers who began from different orientations yet arrived at a similar theoretical destination. This book will set a new standard and should become the definitive account of this important, intellectually significant event for dialogic theory." — T. Dean Thomlison, University of Evansville

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Attending Faithfully to Word, Texture, and Connection Transcript of the Dialogue, with Commentary Opening Question I: Invitation and Stories Question II: Mutuality and Therapy Question III: Inner Meeting and Problems of Terminology Question IV: Human Nature as Positive or Polar Question V: Acceptance and Confirmation Question VI: Within and Between Closing Conclusion: Central Contributions of a New Transcript References About the Authors Index

Rob Anderson is Professor in the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University. He has written or edited six books including The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community with Kenneth N. Cissna and Ronald C. Arnett. Kenneth N. Cissna is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. He has also edited Applied Communication in the 21st Century, winner of the Speech Communication Association's 1995 "Outstanding Book in Applied Communication" award.

"This is a sensitive, penetrating, and illuminating interpretation of a very significant dialogue. Throughout the commentary the authors provide reasonable interpretations grounded on previous transcript errors or on external historical evidence they have uncovered. These new interpretations add significantly to our understanding of the meanings possibly intended by the participants and the meanings possibly constructed by the audience. The style is clear, precise, stimulating, and provocative."— Richard L. Johannesen, Northern Illinois University"I like the fact that it provides a complete and unedited historical record of a uniquely significant public conversation between two primary contributors to dialogic theory. The book provides a rare, accurate picture of the only meeting between these two seminal thinkers who began from different orientations yet arrived at a similar theoretical destination. This book will set a new standard and should become the definitive account of this important, intellectually significant event for dialogic theory." — T. Dean Thomlison, University of Evansville

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Attending Faithfully to Word, Texture, and Connection Transcript of the Dialogue, with Commentary Opening Question I: Invitation and Stories Question II: Mutuality and Therapy Question III: Inner Meeting and Problems of Terminology Question IV: Human Nature as Positive or Polar Question V: Acceptance and Confirmation Question VI: Within and Between Closing Conclusion: Central Contributions of a New Transcript References About the Authors Index